Joelle’s Reviews > Aunt Patty's paying guests > Status Update

"And I smiled to think God's greatness
Flowed around our incompleteness,
Round our restlessness, His rest." Elizabeth Browning

It seemed impossible that I could accept so valuable a gift..yet I could see that both..would be dreadfully hurt if I refused it..he did not like the idea of Paulina's riding about the country alone, and that this was his way of securing a companion for her. I tried to say that I would regard it as a loan; but that would not do. I had to accept it…it sometimes takes more grace to receive a gift than to bestow one.